lockdown humidity

I decided to sell all my smaller incubators & now have the GFQ 1502 Sportsman incubator. My question is how do you control the humidity better with it? I can’t get humidity right. When I fill the pan & add the moisture wick for lockdown the highest the humidity gets is 50%. I need it to be at...

I'm new to hatching chicks. I made my own homemade incubator. I tested it for many days prior to ensure I can get a stable temperature. I have a 60-watt bulb, with a small fan placed in the incubator, along with a pan for water. The eggs are placed on a rack sitting in a plastic container with...

This might be a controversial subject and I don’t want to get into a debate, but my experiences with hatching ducklings in an incubator have left me questioning how valid and necessary the ‘lockdown’ really is…. having said that I am often incubating ducklings during the last half or quarter...

hi there, my eggs are on day 19, yesterday i had the humidity way to high for lockdown. i let it be hoping it would lower over time, and it has the hydrometer of the incubator i am using says 76, i do not have an individual hydrometer and that is a fault on my side this is my first time using...

So days 1-10 my humidity was average 65. Finally figured out my humidity on day 10 and lowered it to 50-60. I’m currently on the first day of lock down. With humidity holding at 65-68. Do you think the chicks will be okay?

I need help right away.... i tgink i just put too much water in my incubator and it mightve gotten into the heater/ fan and it is fogging up way too much.... my chick is in lockdown and i am not supposed to open the lid but i need help!!!!!!

I’m on my 14 day of my incubation for my quail eggs and I’m having some difficulty with humidity. My humidity is not raising above the 70% and it’s not my calibration or anything, It’s the incubator. I have a spray bottle that sprays a very, very, very fine mist and if I sprayed it a couple...

Hi, I'm on day 17 of my chicken eggs so lock down tomo, iv already hatched 1 chick n duck a couple weeks back but since then I lost alot due to saddle airsac really badly, thankfully these 1s don't look as bad but my question is in gona move my chick eggs to the other incubator as still av duck...

Hi there, I have 6 Indian Runner duck eggs in my small, automatic turning incubator - first time we have incubated ducks. All 6 seemed fine on candling at day 20, but 2 of the ducklings have always candled larger than the other 4 for some reason... a hotspot in the incubator maybe? These 2...

Hi all! Looking for a little help. First time incubating. I’m in lockdown and I lined the bottom with wipe all, like a thicker stronger paper towel. (I know not the best idea, will use shelf liner next time!) but it’s done. My paper towel is soaked, and staying wet. Humidity is super high (80%)...

Hi In an egg to chick program with my daughter and it's our first time attempting to hatch chicks. 12 Australorp eggs provided to us - no idea on when the were hatch or how handled prior to us receiving them. They went into a still air incubator at 5pm on April 15th. Today is May 8th and still...

Hi everyone! So I've incubated and hatched some chicken eggs but lost some in the process. I'm worried that I might have done the temperature and humidity wrong. I've been searching the internet about the ideal temperature and humidity. Some say around 50-60% humidity with 102 degrees for...

I have 3 gold laced wyandotte bantam eggs in my incubator and this evening in theory they should go into lockdown day 18 but I'm worried the air sacs aren't very big and haven't been increasing in size. My humidity was around 40% until day 10 when I was worried they weren't growing and so...

I've been trying dry incubation, the eggs are on Day 16 right now. The humidity has been between 30-35% during incubation. What's the best way to get the humidity where it needs to be for lockdown without going to high? I'm still new to incubating so if you have any other lockdown tips you...

Hi, I'm fairly new to incubating (although not to rearing chickens), this is my second batch of hatchlings using an incubator. I had a pretty early hatch last time (all between day 18 and 20, 6 out of 8 eggs). SO I figured that the thermo reading was off and I lowered this batch one degree and...

So where I live it's very humid this time of year. Even with the A/C on the humidity doesn't drop below 40% in the house. I discovered very quickly that ANY water in my incubator drove the humidity WAY past where it should be for those first 18 days. As one does, I went online for solutions...

I have made external pip holes for my silkie chicks because I keep losing babies at the end and just figured out because I am at high altitude, they don't get enough air in lockdown! I made holes in the top of the shells because I don't want to lose these babies. My question is this: If my baby...

This is my first ever batch that I’m incubating. I have 10 Rouhen duck eggs at day 26. I had 3 pip yesterday!! I am concerned about the humidity. I did not realize the importance of a hygrometer since I’m new at this, so I never bought one. I’ve been watching their air cell and adjusting...

hi! So my 3 eggs that seem to have been growing are at day 19 now, almost at the end of the day. I haven’t noticed any movement or shell cracking yet, and put them in lockdown yesterday, I have a few questions about what I should do to make sure I don’t do anything wrong at this point. I’m not...

Hi there! Tomorrow is day 21! So excited. I live in an old farmhouse and run 2 woodstoves but with the current cold snap we’ve been running the kitchen wood stove as well. So dry air to say the least. House runs 14-18% humidity. I’ve kept the humidity up by putting water in the bottom well...